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|Reference|and administrative<br>det|and administrative<br>det|ails|||
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|Registered|charity name||Action Foundation|||
|Charity registration||number|1132051|||
|Company|registration|number|6946097|||
|Principal|office and registered||The CastleGate|||
|office|||Melbourne<br>Street|||
||||Newcastle<br>upon Tyne|||
||||NE1 2JQ|||
|The trustees||||||
|W A Coulson||||||
|RLEvans|||(Resigned 25 May 2020)|||
|JPPowell|||(Resigned 23 April 2020)|||
|A C Smith|||(Resigned 20 January|2021)||
|MFHall||||||
|DLyall||||||
|M Mesgamezhad||||||
|GOksi|||(Appointed<br>16July 2020)|||
|Company|secretary||JLPrior (Resigned 28 June 2021)|||
||||DMcAuley (Appointed<br>28 June 2021)|||
|Auditor|||Stephenson<br>Coates Audit Limited|||
||||Chartered<br>accountant|dt statutory|auditor|
||||West 2, Asama Court|||
||||Newcastle Business Park|||
||||Newcastle<br>upon Tyne|||
||||NE4 7YD|||
|Bankers|||Co-operative Bank pic|||
||||PO Box250|||
||||Skelmersdale|||
||||WN8 6WT|||
||||Unity Trust Bank pic|||
||||Nine Brindleyplace|||
||||Birmingham|||
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|||||funds|funds|Total funds|Total funds|
||||Note|||f.||
|Income and endowments||||||||
|Donations<br>and grants|||5|272,590|850,377|1,122,967|820,109|
|Charitable<br>activities|||6|327,077|286,052|613,129|860,643|
|Other trading activities||||8,257||8457|11,465|
|Total income||||607,924|1,136,429|1,744,353|1,692,217|
|Expenditure||||||||
|Expenditure<br>on raising funds:||||||||
|Costs ofraising donations||and||||||
|legacies|||7|101,430||101&430|106,819|
|Expenditure<br>on charitable|activities||8,0|346,841|1,129,571|1&476,412|1,285,337|
|Total expenditure||||448,271|1,129,571|1&577&842|1,392,156|
|Net income / (expenditure)||||159,653|6,858|166,511|300,061|
|Transfers between funds||||96,100|(96,100)|||
|Net movement<br>in funds||||255,753|(89,242)|166&511|300,061|
|Reconciliation offunds||||||||
|Total funds brought<br>forward||||349,180|420,913|770,093|470,032|
|Total funds carried forward||||604,933|331,671|936,604|770,093|





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|Fixed assets||||||
|Tangible fixed assets||14||227,000|125,000|
|Current<br>assets||||||
|Debtors||18|117,152||167,542|
|Cash at bank and in hand|||785,144||626,327|
||||902896||793,869|
|Creditors: amounts|falling due within one year|16|110,838||53,672|
|Net current assets||||791)458|740,197|
|Total assets less current liabilities||||1,018,458|865,197|
|Creditors: amounts|falling due after more than one|||||
|year||17||81,854|95,104|
|Net assets||||936,604|770,093|
|Funds ofthe charity||||||
|Restricted funds||||331,671|420,913|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||604,933|349,180|
|Total charity funds||19||936,604|770,093|





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|Cash flows from operating|activities|||
|Net income||166,511|300,061|
|Adjustments for:||||
|Interest payable<br>and similar|charges|1,750|1,750|
|Accrued (income)/expenses||3r250|(974)|
|Changes in:||||
|Trade and other debtors||50490|(91,495)|
|Trade snd other creditors||43,916|28,697|
|Cash generated<br>Rom operations||265,817|238,039|
|Net cash (rom operating<br>activities||265,817|238,039|
|Cash flows from investing|activities|||
|Paytnents<br>for the acquisition ofProperty||(102,000)||
|Net cash used in investing|activities|(102,000)||
|Cash flows from financing|activities|||
|Repayments<br>ofborrowings||(5,000)|(5,000)|
|Net cash used in financing|activities|(5,000)|(5,000)|
|Net increase in cash and cash equivalents||158,817|233,039|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at beginning ofyear|626,327|393,288|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at end ofyear|785,144|626,327|





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||||||Funds|Funds|2021|
||||||6|5|8|
|Donations||||||||
|Donations|||||73,430||73,430|
|Gi& Aid|||||13,933||13,933|
|Donated facilities and|services +||||149,227||149,227|
|Grants||||||||
|The Aurum<br>Charitable|Trust||||35,000||35,000|
|Barclays Bank UK Covid-19||Cotnmunity||Relief Funding||100,000|100,000|
|Buildings<br>Connections|Fund|||||20,727|20,727|
|Changing<br>Lives (&um|Newcastle||City Council)|||17,160|17,160|
|Crisis UK"||||||60,000|60,000|
|Community<br>Foundation<br>for Tyne|||dt Wear|and|1,000|16,479|17,479|
|Northumberland*||||||||
|ESOL for Integration|Fund+|||||175,674|175,674|
|Henry<br>Smith Charity||||||22,950|22i950|
|Jill Franklin Trust||||||3,000|3,000|
|Leslie Aldridge<br>Trust||||||96,100|96,100|
|Lloyds Bank Foundation<br>for||England<br>dt Wales||||39,838|39,838|
|NET DCMS BigNight In Match|||Fund-|||29,100|29,100|
|Next Steps Accommodation||Programme+||||62,294|62494|
|The North ofTyne Combined||Authority||||53,108|53,108|
|The Paul Hamlyn<br>Foundation<br>Pea Green Boat Community||First|Fund '|||60,000<br>9,126|60,000<br>9,126|
|Refugee Action||||||58,071|58,071|
|The Sir James Knott Trust||||||7,000|7,000|
|The Vardy Foundation||||||10,000|10,000|
|Virgin Money Foundation||||||9,750|9,750|
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|Donations||||||||
|Donations|||||34,755|52,770|87,525|
|Gift Aid|||||11,305||11405|
|Donated facilities and|services +||||297,617||297&617|
|Grants||||||||
|AB Charitable<br>Trust||||||20,000|20,000|
|Buildings<br>Connections|Fund|||||41,040|41,040|
|Changing<br>Lives (from <br>Controlling<br>Migration|Newcastle<br>Fund "||City|Council)||17,155<br>135,497|17,155<br>135,497|
|Grigor McClelland<br>Fund s|||||1,400|28,600|30,000|
|Henry<br>Smith Charity||||||45,200|45,200|
|Joyce Trust||||||5,000|5,000|
|Lloyds Bank Foundation<br>for||England||itb Wales||28,106|28&106|
|National<br>Lottery Community||Fund||||21,149|21&149|
|Newcastle Fund||||||15,803|15,803|
|Newcastle University<br>Pea Green Boat Community||First|Fund "|||4,053<br>9,090|4,053<br>9,090|
|The Rayne Foundation||||||5,000|5,000|
|Refugee Action (Early|Action Programme)-|||||39,104|39&104|
|Shadow Fund||||||465|465|
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|||Funds|Funds|2021|
|||||8|
|Action Language|||||
|Action Letting||160,270|240,405|400,675|
|Action Access||166,807||166,807|
|Digital Inclusion|||45,647|45,647|
|||327,077|286,052|613,129|
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
|||Funds|Funds|2020|
|Action Language||24,540||24,540|
|Action Letting||250,821|285,796|536,617|
|Action Access|||299,486|299,486|
|Digital Inclusion|||||
|||275,361|585,282|860,643|
|Costs ofraising donations|and grants||||
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
|||Funds|Funds|2021|
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|Wages and salaries||85,625||85,625|
|Employer's MC||7,724||7,724|
|Pension costs||3,526||3,526|
|Fundraising<br>costs||4,556||4456|
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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
|||Funds|Funds|2020|
|Wages and salaries||85,558||85,558|
|Employer's MC||7,407||7,407|
|Pension costs||4,030||4,030|
|Fundraising<br>costs||9,824||9,824|
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|Action Language||79,401|243,803|323,204|
|Action Housing||69,873|160,387|230460|
|Action Letting||136,569|326,653|463422|
|Action Access|||134,553|134,533|
|Interaction||25,408|61,952|87,360|
|Digital Inclusion||6,352|93,491|99,844|
|COVID-response|||79,494|79,494|
|Supportcosts||29,238|29,238|58,476|
|||346,841|1,129,571|1,476,412|
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
|||Funds|Funds|2020|
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|Action Language||191,735|161,310|353,045|
|Action Housing||136,395|44,387|180,782|
|Action Letting||53,033|369,535|422,568|
|Action Access|||193,429|193,429|
|Interaction||16,742|55,218|71,960|
|Digital Inclusion|||||
|COVID-response|||||
|Support costs||27,882|29,895|57,777|
|||431,563|853,774|1,285,337|
|Expenditure<br>on charitable|activities by activity type||||
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|Action Language|323,640|9,152|332,792|370,348|
|Action Housing|230,645|8,053|238,698|187,811|
|Action Letting|462,225|17,491|479,716|441,621|
|Action Access|134,553||134&553|202,080|
|Interaction|87,500|2,929|90&429|75,745|
|Digital Inclusion|99,879|732|100&611||
|COVID-response|79,494||79,494||
|Donations||5,200|5,200|5,776|
|Governance<br>costs||14,919|14,919|1,956|
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||||Language|Housing|Letting||Access|action||Inclusion||response|2021|2020|
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|Premises|||1,500|1,320||2,580||480||120|||6,000|4,843|
|General office|||1,822|1,603||3,134||583||146|||7488|12,994|
|Governance|||3,730|3,282||6,415||1,194||298|||14,919|1,956|
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|Conferences|dt||1,360|1,197||2,340|—|435||109|||5,441|9,695|
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|Legal dt|||3,016|2,654||5,187||965||241|||12,062|9,588|
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|Travel|||40|35||69||13|||3||161|475|
|Marketing<br>dt|||2,440|2,147||4,197||781||195|||9,760|13,630|
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|Bank charges|||262|231||451||84|||21||1,050|539|
|Misc expenses|||11|10||19|||4||I||45|2,307|
|Loan interest||||||1,750|||||||1,750|1,750|
||||14,181|12,480||26,142|—|4,538||1,135|||58,476|57,777|
|Recruitment|costs for the new CEO have been included||||||in here||||||||
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|Fees payable|||for the audit|ofthe financial||statements||||||1,986|1,986||
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|The total||staff costs and employee<br>benefits for the|||||reporting|period|are analysed||as|follows:|||
|||||||||||||2021|2020||
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|Wages|and salaries|||||||||||655,149|527,236||
|Social security costs||||||||||||53,902|43,240||
|Employer||contributions<br>to pension plans||||||||||47,484|40,234||
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||Chief Executive Officer|||||54,307|46,497|
||Senior Leadership<br>Team|||||116,313|68,597|
||The above amount includes gross salary with non-contributory||||pension contribution of6%.|||
||No furlough<br>income was recognised||in the financial year.|||||
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||||||Land and|||
||||||buildings|Equipment|Total|
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||At beginning ofyear||||125,000|10,471|135,471|
||Additions||||102000||~102 00|
||At end ofyear||||227,000|10,471|237,471|
||Depreciation|||||||
||At 1 April 2020 and 31March 2021|||||10,471|10,471|
||Carrying<br>amount|||||||
||At 31March 2021||||227,000||227)000|
||At 31Mamh 2020||||125,000||125,000|
|15.|Debtors|||||||
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||Trade debtors|||||31,697|149,197|
||Other debtors|||||85,455|18,345|
|||||||117,152|167,542|
|16.|Creditors: amounts|fafiing due within one year||||||
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||Loans|||||15,000|5,000|
||Social security and other taxes|||||16315|35,247|
||Other creditors|||||32,866|13,425|
||Accruals and deferred|income||||46,657||
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|17.|Creditors: amounts|faning due after more than||one year||||
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|Action Language||164,141|244,9$3||(243,802)|||165@22|
|Action Housing||$,524|278,723||(170,387)|(96,100)||20,760|
|Action Letting||90,907|331,646||(341,653)|||80,900|
|Action Access||134,553|||(134,553)||||
|Interaction||22,7$8|5$,551||(66,152)|||15)1$7|
|Digital Inclusion|||112,387||(93,529)|||18)858|
|COVID-response|||110,139||(79,494)|||30&645|
|||420,913|1,136,429||(1,129,571)|(96,100)||331,671|



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|Tangible fixed assets|||227,000||227,000|125,000|
|Current assets|||570,625|331,671|902,296|793,869|
|Creditors|less than|1 year|(110,$38)||(110,838)|(53,672)|
|Creditors|greater than I year||(81,854)||(81,854)|(95,104)|
|Net assets|||604,933|331,671|936,604|770,093|



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|City|Church|Newcastle|46,714||35,660|||
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